Fifty of the world’s leading jewellers have pledged to blackball gold mined by
Anglo American in Alaska amid fears that they could be tarnished by any
future environmental disaster.

Tiffany, Zale, Mappin & Webb, Watches of Switzerland and Fraser Hart are
among those that have said they will not sell gold from the proposed Pebble
Mine in western Alaska.

The gold and copper mine is on the shores of Bristol Bay, home to the world’s
largest wild salmon fishery.Opencast goldmines are notorious for the
ecological damage they can cause as a result of leaks and spills and the
local community